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Little Guides to Style: The Classics by Darla-Jane Gilroy, Emma Baxter-Wright, Karen Homer
115.00 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
Little Guides to Style: The Classics is the beautifully packaged story of four heritage design houses that exemplify elegance and haute couture - Burberry, Chanel, Givenchy and Louis Vuitton.From the timeless Burberry Trench to the iconic Louis Vuitton luggage, these four pocket-sized books feature the ...Show more
Little Guides to Style: The Story of Four Iconic Fashion Houses by Emma Baxter-Wright, Karen Homer, Laia Farran Graves
79.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
With images of the four houses' most timeless and celebrated designs, plus captivating text on the personalities and lives of the creative geniuses behind the brands, Little Box of Style is the quintessential collection that will delight any fashion lover.
Odyssey: ANew Translation by Homer; Peter Green
37.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers a ...Show more
Odyssey (The Usborne Illustrated) by Sebastien van Donnick; Homer
24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: Illustrated Originals Ser.
A beautiful edition of Homer's classic tale from Ancient Greece, vividly retold to delight modern readers. Dramatic, stylish illustrations bring to life brave Odysseus' encounters with furious gods, bewitching goddesses, terrifying monsters and a man-eating Cyclops... A beautiful gift for any child who ...Show more
Raising the Fleet - The Pearl Harbor Salvage Operation, 1941-1944: A Pictorial History by Ernest Arroyo; Stan Cohen; Homer N. Wallin
70.00 AUD
Category: History
One of the greatest maritime salvage operations in US history took place for three years after the devastating attack by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Raising the Fleet follows the operation on each ship sunk or damaged from refloating to moderate to intensive repairs to putting the ...Show more
The Homeric Hymns by Jules Cashford, Homer, Homer
22.99 AUD
Category: Mythology | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. They recount the key episodes in the lives of the gods, and dramatise the moments when they first appear before mortals. Together they offer the most vivid picture we have ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer, Emily Wilson
32.95 AUD
Category: Classics
When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)-critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, G ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer Homer
22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The IliadBy HomerAnd Achilles answered, "Most noble son of Atreus, covetous beyond all mankind, how shall the Achaeans find you another prize? We have no common store from which to take one. Those we took from the cities have been awarded; we cannot disallow the awards that have been made already. Give ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
65.95 AUD
Category: Classics
After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans and the besieging Greeks. Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, offers the Greeks wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive by Agamemnon, the Greek leader. Although m ...Show more
The Iliad
16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
17.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
An accessible Iliad for twenty-first-century readers A classic of Western literature for three millennia, Homer's Iliad captivates modern readers--as it did ancient listeners--with its tale of gods and warriors at the siege of Troy. Now Herbert Jordan's line-for-line translation brilliantly renders the ...Show more
The Iliad by Homer
34.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In every century since the renaissance, English speakers have felt compelled to possess a translation written especially for their own time of this great epic poem, the earliest and most central literary text of Western culture. That need has been thoroughly met in our cen ...Show more